| From: | The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Jumpin Jack Flash |
| Date: | Fri, 9 Jul 1993 14:59:35 -0500 |
the corp either would or would not subsidize the implantation and
capital cost. But what about employees getting them on their own
account? Going back to the secretary example, the following skills
are MANDATORY for a secretary: Familiarity with either DOS, Windows,
or a Macintosh; Wordperfect, Word, Excel, Wampum, and a host of other
popular data management programs. If you do not know how to use one or
more of these programs, you will be very low on the hiring totem pole.
People attend night school and seminars just to learn these programs,
spending a couple hundred at a time. If I was a corp secretary, I would
consider it in my best interests to get a datajack for job security. I'm
sure credit can be arranged, and 1,700 can be paid out over the course of
a year or two on wage slave salary.
Corps may still offer incentives and subsidy plans. But the point is that
even if they don't, the natural consequence of technology will create their
own incentive to get jacked.
J Roberson
